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Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes. The Great Detective. Sherlock Holmes. Detective Story. Poe created the detective story 1841 Dupin Brilliant Solves by sheer mental powers Eccentric Prefers night to day Burns candles. Elements of the Conventional Detective Story:. Crime discovered

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Sherlock Holmes

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  1. Sherlock Holmes The Great Detective

  2. Sherlock Holmes

  3. Detective Story • Poe created the detective story • 1841 Dupin • Brilliant • Solves by sheer mental powers • Eccentric • Prefers night to day • Burns candles

  4. Elements of the Conventional Detective Story: • Crime discovered • Innocent person is suspected • Clues sorted out

  5. Detectives: • Keen • Clever • Intelligent • Logical • Observant • Know all crimes • Quiet thinker • Not rash • Insightful • Good eye sight • Agile • Quick thinker

  6. Crime Scene: • Secure and isolate the scene • Record the scene • Photography • Sketches • Notes • Search for evidence…physical • Collect and package evidence and label…must use gloves • Custody of evidence • Submit to lab

  7. Physical Evidence: • Blood • Saliva • Documents • Drugs • Explosives • Fibers • Firearms • Glass • Hair • Paint • Gas residues • Plastic bags…garbage • Serial numbers • Soil and minerals • Tools • Vehicle….lights • Impressions • Shoe prints • Fingerprints • Ridge patterning –unique • Developed by French police…expert Alphonse Bertillon in 1883…body measurements • Unchanged during life

  8. Biography of Sherlock Holmes • Born on 6th January 1854 • The hawk-like features • Piercing eyes • Wore dressing-gown and had pipe • Wore deerstalker cap and had magnifying glass • Enigmatic figure…solving crimes

  9. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle • Born: May 22, 1859 • OCCUPATION: Doctor and author • DEATH DATE: July 7, 1930 • EDUCATION: University of Edinburgh…studied to be a doctor • Wrote: 60 stories about Sherlock Holmes

  10. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle • Doyle met and married his first wife, Louisa Hawkins in 1885…dies of TB • Doyle remarried Jean Leckie • He struggled to balance his medical career with his efforts to gain recognition as an author • Doyle later gave up medicine in order to devote all of his attention to his writing and his faith • Created Watson • Famous address 221B Baker Street • Study in Scarlet and The Hound of The Baskervilles

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